Example sentences of "[verb] been [verb] [prep] [num] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is why the peace process , for which Israel has been striving for 44 years , has to be seen as the only viable solution . |
| 2 | Jarvis , 51 , who is the son of a jump jockey , has been training for 21 years and Carroll House 's victory was by far his most important . |
| 3 | The visioncare business , which Pilkington has been nurturing for three years and where it now ranks in the world 's top three , increased its operating profits by £4.4 million to £18.8 million . |
| 4 | The visioncare business , which Pilkington has been nurturing for three years and where it now ranks in the world 's top three , increased its operating profits by £4.4 million to £18.8 million . |
| 5 | The Mill has been renovated after 12 years of doing nothing . |
| 6 | Mary has been retired for eight years after 33 years ' service in the Bank at Scarinish . |
| 7 | Print Quarterly , based in London , has been publishing for ten years . |
| 8 | Geraldine , who worked as accounts clerk at Yarmouth Marine Base left to accompany her RAF husband to Cyprus where he has been posted for three years . |
| 9 | Ministers will continue to review every case where a life sentence prisoner has been detained for 10 years . |
| 10 | GALLAGHER and Lyle , one of the biggest musical acts of the '70s , has been reunited after 12 years . |
| 11 | SIR — The fact that Steve Redfern has been trying for six years to resume playing rugby union after playing rugby league ( Daily Telegraph , April 2 ) shows that union is a more enjoyable game . |
| 12 | The crowds at Constitution Dock cheered the owner who has been trying for 20 years to score a major success in this race . |
| 13 | He has been trying for three years and he said today : ‘ Maybe it is because , God knows , I 've had some leg problems and I just can not climb those steps that easily , ’ he joked . |
| 14 | Andrew 's family has been trying for three years to get treatment for him . |
| 15 | The action manager converts the report into results and delivers a report on what has been achieved within two years of the start of the process . |
| 16 | The significance of managerial issues in the NHS has been emphasised throughout 12 years of Conservative government — most notably through the implementation of the Griffiths Report ( 1983 ) and Working for Patients ( 1989 ) . |
| 17 | Opinion : ‘ … it will not be known until Sizewell B has been operating for some years whether the PWR will become the established nuclear option that has been sought for 30 years . ’ |
| 18 | Rick has been teaching for twelve years and is Head of Mathematics in a boys ' secondary modern school in a small town , with an intake mainly from middle-class homes . |
| 19 | Edith Harlow has been teaching for 40 years and Teachers in this area felt the time was ripe for celebration . |
| 20 | Jill Jones seems to fall into that category ( she has been teaching for seven years ) . |
| 21 | ‘ When a golf course has been played for 15 years , as The Belfry had , it begins to show certain areas where improvements can be made by fine-tuning . |
| 22 | Katie Englehart , the illiterate wife of an American farmer , has been healing for fifteen years . |
| 23 | Faith also has been flying for twenty years . |
| 24 | If Oman today is a relaxed and comfortable nation , it is because it has been led in 21 years from medieval seclusion to modern success . |
| 25 | Its presence has been seen for 2,000 years throughout the acrimonious purgings of innocent human life in the witchcraft genocides ; through the long systematic persecution then culmination in horrific holocausting of Jesus 's own people — the tribe of Judah . |
| 26 | ‘ We can hear the phones , and it saves a trek downstairs , ’ says Sheila , who has been smoking for 25 years . |
| 27 | Women , Art and Society is a synthesis of work that has been progressing for twenty years about women and the visual arts . |
| 28 | A 20-YEAR-OLD Belfast man has been jailed for eight years for his part in an armed robbery of more than £6,000 from an Ulster Bank . |
| 29 | Former World Heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson has been jailed for six years for raping a former beauty queen . |
| 30 | A bird breeder has been jailed for four years after stolen rare birds were found wrapped in sacking in the boot of his car . |